Only $20 to see Mickey Rooney! How could I resist? I love anything that’s Old Show Business, and Mickey is a genuine show-biz legend, one of the last Hollywood survivors. (He made his first film in 1926, when Rudolph Valentino was still alive!) Plus the (“beautiful”) Mount Airy Lodge, now the Mount Airy Hotel & Casino, is within short driving distance of my home!

Mickey, an 89-year-old (he turns 90 next month), and his eighth wife, Jan, herself a singer and actress, performed solo songs and duets, joked about marriage, divorce, and height (his; he now stands 4’11”), and presented memorable film clips from Mickey’s 85-year career. I was in heaven! It was surely show business at its finest.

At one point, my friend whispered to me that the much larger Jan looked like a ventriloquist to Mickey’s dummy, which inspired this drawing.